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Turkish Press Review, 96-11-22Turkish Press Review Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs <http://www.mfa.gov.tr>CONTENTS
TURKISH PRESS REVIEWFRIDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1996Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press this morning[01] CILLER TO VISIT THE NETHERLANDSForeign Minister Tansu Ciller is to visit the Netherlands on November 27-28, just before the Hague takes up the term presidency of the EU. Ciller will meet with the Dutch Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and representatives of the Turkish community. She will also discuss bilateral relations, as well as Turkey's relations with the EU. /All papers/[02] WASHINGTON RENEWS SUPPORT FOR AZERI-TURKISH OIL ROUTEThe US government has renewed its support for the transportation of Kazakh oil to world markets by means of a pipeline to run between Azerbaijan and Turkey. The announcement concerning the US position was made by James Collins, a senior US State Department official responsible for relations with the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Collins spoke after meeting with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Wednesday in Almati. He said that the transportation of Kazakh oil to world markets through Turkey was one of the routes supported by Washington. /Sabah/[03] 30 PEOPLE ARRESTED AT ALLEGED PKK TRAINING CENTER IN BELGIUMBelgian Gendarmerie Forces stormed into an alleged outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) training center in a house in the town of Zutendaal near Limburg, arresting at least 30 alleged PKK members. Gendarmerie sources said that the people arrested were taken into custody in line with efforts to prevent illegal activities in that country. /Sabah/[04] GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER REJECTS SOLUTIONS PACKAGEGreek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos yesterday rejected a solution package which would have included Turkish-Greek disputes over the Aegean and the Cyprus issue. Pangalos, speaking at a press conference in Athens, said that accepting Turkish Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller's proposals for extensive dialogue and agreeing to talk over the Aegean and Cyprus issues as a package, would be "signing an armistice like the defeated side in a war".Noting that he was opposed to solving the dispute over the Kardak_Imia islets and the Aegean continental shelf at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Pangalos said agreeing to solve the issues, which according to him was impossible, would undermine Greece. Pangalos said that Greece would block all measures to help Turkey at the EU Summit, to be held on December 13-14, if Turkey continued to insist that the Kardak issue go to the court in The Hague. /Sabah-Milliyet/ [05] ANKARA REACTS TO EURO-COURT DECISION ON SADIK AHMET APPEALThe decision of the European Commission to throw out a case brought by the late Sadik Ahmet alleging discrimination by the government of Greece against its Turkish minority, has been met by Ankara with "surprise". Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Omer Akbel, referring to the commission's ruling, indicated that Sadik Ahmet's recourse to legal redress in Greece had been blocked from the start. He said the European Commission of Human Rights appears to have lost sight of the fact that one obstacle preventing Ahmet taking his case further in the courts of Greece was that he was unable to find a single lawyer of Greek ethnic backgound to represent him."The most important point about his ruling, however, is that it does not overturn the previous ruling of the European Court of July 1, 1994," Akbel said. "This establishes that it was not an offence to refer to a 'Turkish minority' in Greece, and that Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights confers the right of ethnic groups to express their own identity" Akbel added. /All papers/ [06] PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT GETS NEW DIRECTORAmbassador Aydan Karahan, a senior official in the Foreign Ministry, began his new job yesterday as General Director of the Press and Information Department of the Prime Ministry, the Anatolia news agency reported.After graduating from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University in 1965, Karahan completed his military service in 1968, and was appointed as First Secretary and Counselor to The Hague and later Moscow. Following a term as Counselor to Turkey's Lefkosa Embassy, Karahan worked as a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister between 1981-1983. Later he was appointed as First Secretary to Turkey's Washington Embassy. Appointed Chairman of the Islamic Countries Economic Cooperation attached to the State Planning Organization between 1988-1992, Karahan was later assigned as Ambassador to Turkey's Beirut Embassy on January, 1992. He was re-appointed to Turkey's Lefkosa Embassy as Ambassador in 1995, Karahan returned to Turkey on 24 November, 1996, as a ministerial advisor. Karahan, born in 1942, in his message to the General Directorate of Press and Information staff, said that he aimed to bring the Directorate up to more contemporary levels through increased cooperation and advanced technology. [07] TURKISH EXPORTERS IN BRUSSELSA Turkish Permanent Representation of the Union of Textiles and Ready-Wear Exporters has been opened in Brussels with a ceremony by State Minister Ayfer Yilmaz. Noting that there were issues to be solved within the framework of the Customs Union in order to increase exports, Yilmaz said that Turkish representations would be opened in foreign markets, including Kiev and Romania. /Sabah/[08] CEASE-FIRE COMMITTEE STARTS WORK IN N.IRAQThe committee formed to oversee the cease-fire between the A Iraqi Kurds started work yesterday in Erbil, the main city of northern Iraq. Mesud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Celal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) agreed on the consolidation of a cease-fire in an Ankara meeting brokered by the US, Great Britain and Turkey last week. The committee is composed of three representatives from the KDP, PUK political factions and the ethnic Turkmen minority. /All papers/[09] WEU REACTION TO TURKISH DECISIONOfficials in the WEU organization for European cooperation, are not surprised unduly about Turkey's announced veto against allowing NATO forces to be used by the WEU.Both diplomatic and WEU sources said yesterday that they had been receiving messages from Turkey for some months that clearly indicated that something along the lines of the veto was in the air. WEU officials add however, that the WEU does not want to add to the difficulties created by the veto even further by upsetting Turkey even more. /Milliyet/ [10] PKK HIT SQUAD ARRESTEDFollowing the arrest of a 20 person PKK hit squad following a big security operation in Istanbul, more details are coming to light about PKK plans to target schools in attacks scheduled for the end of this month.Members of the terrorist PKK team revealed that to mark the formation of the PKK more than a decade ago, schools were going to be bombed on November 27 with molotov cocktails. During the security operation police and security officials seized 22 molotov cocktails, bomb making equipment and weapons. /All papers/ END Turkish Press Review Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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